Ever since Charles de Gaulle turned over
French Algeria to the Communist Arabs in 1962, forcing an exodus of over a million
Europeans to metropolitan France, I've had nothing but contempt for France's foreign
policy. That act of betrayal has had a profound effect on France's body politic
which has lacked integrity ever since. It should be remembered that France conquered
Algeria in the 1840s to stop the depredations of the Barbary thugs. Europeans
then settled there by the hundreds of thousands, turning Algeria into a peaceful,
thriving and productive part of the French empire.

And while Europeans took
to the boats and fled Algeria, leaving behind farms, businesses, and homes, Algeria
became another socialist hell-hole. And so, Algerians have continued to migrate
to France, finding it impossible to live in a country where Islamic terrorists
slit the throats of children asleep in their beds.

Prior to De Gaulle's
betrayal, France had been a strong ally of Israel, but when it surrendered Algeria
to the Arabs, it then became pro-Arab. Thus, the French not only betrayed their
own people in Algeria, but also the Christian Maronites in Lebanon as well as
the Israelis.

It was the French who helped Saddam Hussein build the nuclear
reactor, which the Israelis destroyed in 1981 in an amazingly skillful attack.
"The central building is entirely collapsed," said one of the French
technicians who flew back to Paris after the attack. "The atomic reactor
is unreachable and the anti-radiation shield has disappeared." The Frenchman
also reported that one of the bombs did not explode, thereby making it impossible
to rebuild the reactor without first destroying everything that remains.

The
technician complimented the Israelis on their skill. "The precision of the
attack was stupefying. The Israelis chose their hour perfectly to avoid the maximum
loss of human life."

Of course, Israel was condemned by the international
communitythe United Nations Arabs and their sympathizersfor sparing
the world a decade of nuclear threat from Saddam. When John Phillips, a Princeton
student who had written a paper on how to build an atomic bomb, was approached
by a Pakistani who wanted to buy his plan, he reported the incident to the FBI.
He had no doubt that Iraq was building an atomic bomb with the technical help
of the French. "France is the whore of nuclear proliferation," he said.

So
it's no surprise that France, as of this writing, opposes President Bush's intention
of getting rid of Saddam Hussein once and for all. Why? Are they actually helping
Saddam build an atomic bomb in a clandestine way? Its chief use would be to threaten
Israel. But that wouldn't bother the French. Their government has become a master
of betrayal and it cannot be trusted because it has no moral standards, no moral
backbone.

The glory of France is a thing of the past. Its brief period
of great benign advance in the 19th century, when it built a brilliant colonial
empire which liberated millions of Africans from disease and backwardness, came
to an end when De Gaulle jettisoned the whole fabulous enterprise. And the result
is an Africa in ruins and disease. De Gaulle, the destroyer, set France on its
present path of wholesale betrayal of Western values. The country is now overrun
by Muslems, and its philosophers have contributed the last chapter in the descent
to philosophical insanity: deconstructionism.

France has become irrelevant
to the great tasks that confront the Bush administration. Apart from providing
us with fine perfumes, wines, and cheeses, the French are incapable of saving
Western civilization. Nor do they really want to. That job has been left to us.